src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- sh_optksh[]: Edit descriptions of -c and -s options for clarity.
- sh_set[]: The --rc long name equivalent for -E was documented
wrong, but in any case it does not belong in sh_set[], because
that also shows up in 'set --man' and this invocation-only option
cannot be used with 'set'. Remove it. (Note that all other
invocation options already don't have inline documentation of
their long equivalents. This may or may not be fixed at some
point. It is problematic because they should not be documented in
sh_set[] but there is no other good place for them.)
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Generally edit the Invocation section for clarity.
- Document the long invocation option equivalents.
- Remove some nonsense from the -s description: "Shell output,
except for the output of the Special Commands listed above, is
written to file descriptor 2" (which is standard error).
In fact, this option has no influence at all on what is written
to standard error or standard output.
Reproducer:
$ ksh -c 'v=${ PATH=/dev/null; }; echo $PATH; whence ls'
/dev/null
/bin/ls
The PATH=/dev/null assignment should survive the shared-state
command substitution, and does, yet 'ls' is still found.
The variable became inconsistent with the internal pathlist.
This bugfix is from the 93v- beta.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c: sh_subshell():
- Do not save and restore pathlist for a subshare.
- A few other subshell tweaks from 93v- that made sense:
. reset shp->subdup (bitmask for dups of 1) after saving it
. use e_dot instead of "." for consistency
. retry close(1) if it was interrupted
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh:
- Add test for this bug.
On some systems (AIX, HP-UX, OpenBSD) the pty tests may hang.
On all systems except Darwin/macOS, FreeBSD and Linux, the pty
tests show one or more regressions. But when I try out the failing
tests manually in a real session, it seems to work fine. So I
suspect pty is broken and not ksh.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- For now, only run the pty tests on Darwin, FreeBSD and Linux.
src/lib/libast/Mamfile:
- tvsleep.c: Add missing error.h dependency (re: 2f7918de).
(unrelated, but just wasn't worth its own commit)
Most of these changes remove unused variables, functions and labels
to fix -Wunused compiler warnings. Somewhat notable changes:
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/print.c:
- Removed the unused 'neg' variable.
Patch from ksh2020: https://github.com/att/ast/pull/725
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/sleep.c:
- Initialized ns to fix three -Wsometimes-uninitialized warnings.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/{emacs,vi}.c:
- Adjust strncpy size to fix two -Wstringop-truncation warnings.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- The NOT_USED macro caused many -Wunused-value warnings,
so it has been replaced with ksh2020's macro:
https://github.com/att/ast/commit/19d0620a
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/expand.c:
- Removed an unnecessary 'ap = ' since 'ap' is never read
between stakseek and stakfreeze.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c: refresh():
- Undef this function's 'w' macro at the end of it to stop it
potentially interfering with future code changes.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/nvdisc.c,
src/lib/libast/misc/magic.c,
src/lib/libast/regex/regsubexec.c,
src/lib/libast/sfio/sfpool.c,
src/lib/libast/vmalloc/vmbest.c:
- Fixed some indentation to silence -Wmisleading-indentation
warnings.
src/lib/libast/include/ast.h:
- For clang, now only suppress hundreds of -Wparentheses warnings
as well as a few -Wstring-plus-int warnings.
Clang's -Wparentheses warns about things like
if(foo = bar())
which assigns to foo and checks the assigned value.
Clang wants us to change this into
if((foo = bar()))
Clang's -Wstring-plus-int warns about things like
"string"+x
where x is an integer, e.g. "string"+3 represents the string
"ing". Clang wants us to change that to
"string"[3]
The original versions represent a perfectly valid coding style
that was common in the 1980s and 1990s and is not going to change
in this historic code base. (gcc does not complain about these.)
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
In the emacs editor:
1. press ESC
2. change the size of your terminal window
and your screen is mysteriously cleared. (Until recent fixes, the
shell probably also crashed somewhere in the job control code.)
The cause is the way SIGWINCH is handled by ed_read() in edit.c.
For the emacs editor, it sends a Ctrl+L character to the input
buffer. The Ctrl+L command refreshes the command line. And it so
happens that ESC plus Ctrl+L is a command to clear the screen in
the emacs editor.
With the exeption of vi insert/command mode for which it uses a
shared flag, edit.c does not know the state of the editor, because
their data are internal to emacs.c and vi.c. So it doesn't know
whether you're in some mode that treats keyboard input specially.
Which means this way of dealing with SIGWINCH is fundamentally
misdesigned and is not worth fixing.
It gets sillier: in addition to sending keyboard commands, edit.c
was also communicating directly with emacs.c and vi.c via a flag,
e_nocrnl, which means 'please don't make Ctrl+L emit a linefeed'
(it normally refreshes on a new line but that is undesirable for
SIGWINCH). So there is already a hack that breaks the barrier
between edit.c and emacs.c/vi.c. Let's do that properly instead.
As of this commit, ed_read() does not send any fake keystrokes.
Instead, two extern functions, emacs_redraw() and vi_redraw(), are
defined for redrawing the command line. These are put in emacs.c
and vi.c so they have access to relevant static data and functions.
Then, instead of sending keyboard commands to the editor and
returning, ed_read() simply calls the redraw function for the
active editor, then continues and waits for input. Much cleaner.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h:
- Remove e_nocrnl flag from Edit_t struct.
- Define externs emacs_redraw() and vi_redraw(). Since Emacs_t and
Vi_t types are not known here, we have to declare void* pointers
and the functions will have to use typecasts.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c:
- ed_read(): Call emacs_redraw() or vi_redraw() as per above.
- ed_getchar(): Remove comment about a nonexistent while loop.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c:
- Updates corresponding to removal of e_nocrnl flag.
- Add emacs_redraw(). This one is pretty simple. Refresh the
command line, then ed_flush() to update the cursor display.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c:
- Updates corresponding to removal of e_nocrnl flag. Also remove a
similar internal 'nonewline' flag which is now equally redundant.
- Move the Ctrl+L handling code (minus writing the newline) into
the vi_redraw() function.
- Change two cases where vi set nonewline and sent Ctrl+L to itself
into simple vi_redraw() calls.
- Add vi_redraw(). This is more complicated as it incorporates the
previous Ctrl+L code. It needs an added refresh() call with a
check whether we're currently in command or insert mode, as those
use different refresh methods. Luckily edit.c already maintains
an *e_vi_insert flag in ed_getchar() that we can use. Since vi's
refresh() already calls ed_flush(), we don't need to add that.
Huge typeset -L/-R adjustment length values were still causing
crashses on sytems with not enough memory. They should error out
gracefully instead of crashing.
This commit adds out of memory checks to all malloc/calloc/realloc
calls that didn't have them (which is all but two or three).
The stkalloc/stakalloc calls don't need the checks; it has
automatic checking, which is done by passing a pointer to the
outofspace() function to the stakinstall() call in init.c.
src/lib/libast/include/error.h:
- Change the ERROR_PANIC exit status value from ERROR_LEVEL (255)
to 77, which is what it is supposed to be according to the libast
error.3 manual page. Exit statuses > 128 for anything else than
signals are not POSIX compliant and may cause misbehaviour.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c:
- To facilitate consistency, add a simple extern sh_outofmemory()
function that throws an ERROR_PANIC "out of memory".
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- Remove now-redundant e_nospace[] extern message; it is now only
used in one place so it might as well be a string literal in
sh_outofmemory().
All other changed files:
- Verify the result of all malloc/calloc/realloc calls and call
sh_outofmemory() if they fail.
Additional adjustments to previous commit bdb9974 to correct
crashes when the max size of a justified string is requested.
This commit corrects the following:
Before (Ubuntu 64bit):
$ typeset -L $(((1<<31)-1)) s=h; typeset +p s
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
After:
$ typeset -L $(((1<<31)-1)) s=h; typeset +p s
typeset -L 2147483647 s
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c: nv_putval():
- Alter the variables size, dot, and append from int to unsigned
int to prevent unwanted negative values from being expressed.
- By creating size, dot, and append as unsigned ints; (unsigned)
type casting is avoided.
This solves another intermittent crash that happened upon
processing SIGWINCH in the emacs editor. See also: 7ff6b73b
I found this bug while testing ksh 93u+m on OpenBSD. Due to its
pervasive security hardening, this system crashes a program
reliably where others crash it intermittently, which is invaluable.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/jobs.c: job_reap():
- The pw pointer is not ever given a value if the loop breaks on
line 318-319, but it is used unconditionally on lines 464-470,
Initialise the pointer to null on function entry and do not call
job_list() and job_unpost() if the pointer is still null.
It's amazing what can happen when you compile ksh using standard
malloc (i.e. with AST vmalloc disabled) on OpenBSD. Its security
hardening provokes crashes that reveal decades-old unsolved bugs.
This one is an attempt to access one byte before the beginning of
the command line buffer when the cursor is at the beginning of it.
On this system configuration, it provoked an instant crash whenever
you moved the cursor back to the beginning of the command line,
e.g. with ^A or the cursor keys.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c: draw():
- Check that the cursor is actually past the first position of the
command line buffer before trying to read the position
immediately before it. If not, zero the value.
The following caused an infinite loop:
v=${ exec >/dev/tty; }
v=${ redirect >/dev/tty; }
Even the original authors didn't figure out how to 'exec >foo' or
'redirect >foo' inside a non-forking command substitution, so they
fork it by calling sh_subfork(). If we delete that call, even
normal command substitutions enter into that infinite loop. But of
course a shared-state comsub can never fork as it would no longer
share its state. Without a solution to make this work without
forking, an error message is the only sensible thing left to do.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c: sh_redirect():
- If we're redirecting standard output (1), the redirection is
permanent as in 'exec'/'redirect' (flag==2), and we're in a
subshare, then error out.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/128
POSIX warns about "unset PWD" leading to unspecified behavior from
the pwd util, which we then use.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- Determine if the shell has $PWD with a feature test. Only unset
PWD if it does not (the old Bourne shell).
- Clean up 'case' flow.
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
ksh crashed in various different and operating system-dependent
ways when attempting to create or apply justification strings
using typeset -L/-R/-Z, especially if large sizes are used.
The crashes had two immediate causes:
- In nv_newattr(), when applying justification attributes, a buffer
was allocated for the justified string that was exactly 8 bytes
longer than the original string. Any larger justification string
caused a buffer overflow (!!!).
- In nv_putval(), when applying existing attributes to a new value,
the corresponding memmove() either did not zero-terminate the
justified string (if the original string was longer than the
justified string) or could read memory past the original string
(if the original string was shorter than the justified string).
Both scenarios can cause a crash.
This commit fixes other minor issues as well, such as a mysterious
8 extra bytes allocated by several malloc/realloc calls. This may
have been some naive attempt to paper over the above bugs. It seems
no one can make any other kind of sense of it.
A readjustment bug with zero-filling was also fixed.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- nv_putval():
. Get rid of the magical +8 bytes for malloc and realloc. Just
allocate one extra byte for the terminating zero.
. Fix the memmove operation to use strncpy instead, so that
buffer overflows are avoided in both scenarios described above.
Also make it conditional upon a size adjustment actually
happening (i.e. if 'dot' is nonzero).
. Mild refactoring: combine two 'if(sp)' blocks into one;
declare variables only used there locally for legibility.
- nv_newattr():
* Replace the fatally broken "let's allocate string length + 8
bytes no matter the size of the adjustment" routine with a new
one based on work by @hyenias (see comments in #142). It is
efficient with memory, taking into account numeric types,
growing strings, and shrinking strings.
* Fix zero-filling in readjustment after changing the initial
size of a -Z attribute. If the number was zero, all zeros were
still skipped, leaving an empty string.
Thanks to @hyenias for originally identifying this breakage and
laying the groundwork for fixing nv_newattr(), and to @lijog for
the crash analysis that revealed the key to the nv_putval() fix.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/142
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/181
So now we know what that faulty check for shp->indebug in sh_trap()
was meant to do: it was meant to pass down the trap handler's exit
status, via sh_debug(), down to sh_exec() (xec.c) so that it could
then skip the execution of the next command if the trap's exit
status is 2, as documented in the manual page. As of d00b4b39, exit
status 2 was not passed down, so this stopped working.
This commit reinstates that functionality, but without the exit
status bug in command substitutions caused by the old way.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c: sh_trap():
- Save the trap's exit status before restoring the parent
envionment's exit status. Make this saved exit status the return
value of the function. (This does not break anything, AFAICT; the
majority of sh_trap() calls ignore the return value, and the few
that don't ignore it seem to expect it to return exactly this.)
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- The sh_trap() fix has one side effect: whereas the exit status of
a skipped command was always 2 (as per the trap handler), now it
is always 0, because it gets reset in sh_exec() but no command is
executed. That is probably not a desirable change in behaviour,
so let's fix that here instead: set sh.exitval to 2 when skipping
commands.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Document that ${.sh.command} shell-quotes its arguments for use
by 'eval' and such. This fact was not documented anywhere, AFAIK.
src/cmd/ksh93/shell.3:
- Document that $? (exit status) is made local to trap handlers.
- Document that sh_trap() returns the trap handler's exit status.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Add test for this bug.
- Add a missing test for the exit status 255 functionality (if a
DEBUG trap handler yields this exit status and we're executing a
function or dot script, a return is triggered).
Fixes: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/187
Many of the errors fixed in this commit are word repetitions
such as 'the the' and minor spelling errors. One formatting
error in the ksh man page has also been fixed.
On SVR4 platforms, select is a sometimes erroneous wrapper around
the poll system call, so call poll directly for efficiency purposes if
it implies no loss in precision.
See, e.g., http://bugs.motifzone.net/long_list.cgi?buglist=129 .
src/lib/libast/features/tvlib:
- For systems lacking nanosleep, test whether select is truly more
precise than poll.
src/lib/libast/tm/tvsleep.c:
- Verify that tv argument is not null.
- Immediately return if asked to sleep for a duration of zero.
- Immediately initialize timespec in the nanosleep case.
- Revise variable names to use Apps Hungarian.
- Use poll instead of select when there is no loss in precision.
- Check for overflow in the poll case.
- Improve comments.
- Revise arithmetic to work with unsigned types, rather than
casting to long.
- Do not return non-zero if we have slept for a sufficient
time.
In the 93v- beta, they add a newline instead of a space.
This has fewer side effects as final newlines get stripped.
It's still a hack and it would still be nice to have a real fix,
but it seems even the AT&T guys couldn't come up with one.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c:
- To somehow avoid a memory leak involving alias substitution,
append a linefeed instead of a space to the comsub buffer.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/subshell.sh:
- Add test for minor regression caused by the RedHat version.
Compilers like GCC are capable of optimizing away calls like
pow(1,inf), which caused the IEEE compliance feature test within
libast to incorrectly succeed on platforms with non-IEEE behavior.
This is arguably a bug within GCC, as floating point optimizations
should never alter the behavior of code unless IEEE compliance is
explicitly disabled via a flag like -ffast-math. Programs in which
only some calls to pow are optimized away are liable to severely
malfunction.
Thanks to Martijn Dekker for pointing this issue out and the kind
operators of polarhome.com for permitting me gratis use of their
Unix systems.
src/lib/libast/comp/omitted.c:
- Add IEEE compliant functions that wrap powf, pow, and powl.
src/lib/libast/features/float:
- Look for powf, pow, and powl in the C library.
- For compilers that do the right thing, like the native toolchains
of Solaris and UnixWare, use lightweight macros to wrap the pow
functions.
- Use a volatile function pointer through which to access the C
library's pow function in an attempt to defeat code optimization.
- For these overzealous compilers, define pow to _ast_pow so that
the same technique can be used within the above functions.
This commit fixes a bug in the 'read' built-in: it did not properly
skip over multibyte characters. The bug never affects UTF-8 locales
because all UTF-8 bytes have the high-order bit set. But Shift-JIS
characters may include a byte corresponding to the ASCII backslash
character, which cauased buggy behaviour when using 'read' without
the '-r' option that disables backslash escape processing.
It also makes the regression tests compatible with Shift-JIS
locales. They failed with syntax errors.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/read.c:
- Use the multibyte macros when skipping over word characters.
Based on a patch from the old ast-developers mailing list:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ast-developers@lists.research.att.com/msg01848.html
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h:
- Be a bit smarter about causing the compiler to optimise out
multibyte code when SHOPT_MULTIBYTE is disabled. See the updated
comment for details.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/locale.sh:
- Put all the supported locales in an array for future tests.
- Add test for the 'read' bug. Include it in a loop that tests
64 SHIFT-JIS character combinations. Only one fails on old ksh:
the one where the final byte corresponds to the ASCII backslash.
It doesn't hurt to test all the others anyway.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh,
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh,
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/quoting2.sh:
- Fix syntax errors that occurred in SHIFT-JIS locales as the
parser was processing literal UTF-8 characters. Not executing
that code is not enough; we need to make sure it never gets
parsed as well. This is done by wrapping the commands containing
literal UTF-8 strings in an 'eval' command as a single-quoted
operand.
.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Run the tests in the ja_JP.SJIS locale instead of ja_JP.UTF-8.
UTF-8 is already covered by the nl_NL.UTF-8 test run; that should
be good enough.
This commit introduced the following bug, which is worse than the
one that commit fixed: it became impossible to alter the size of an
existing justified string attribute.
Thanks to @hyenias for catching this bug:
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/142#issuecomment-780931533
$ unset s; typeset -L 100 s=h; typeset +p s; typeset -L 5 s; typeset +p s
typeset -L 100 s
typeset -L 100 s
Expected output:
typeset -L 100 s
typeset -L 5 s
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- Revert.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/attributes.sh:
- Revert: re-disable tests for minor attribute output regressions.
- Add a test for this bug and potential similar bugs.
A ${ shared-state command substitution; } (internally called
subshare) is documented to share its state with the parent shell
environment, so all changes made within the command substitution
survive outside of it. However, when it is run within a
virtual/non-forked subshell, variables that are not already local
to that subshell will leak out of it into the grandparent state.
Reproducer:
$ ksh -c '( v=${ bug=BAD; } ); echo "$bug"'
BAD
If the variable pre-exists in the subshell, the bug does not occur:
$ ksh -c '( bug=BAD1; v=${ bug=BAD2; } ); echo "$bug"'
(empty line, as expected)
The problem is that the sh_assignok() function, which is
responsible for variable scoping in virtual subshells, does not
ever bother to create a virtual subshell scope for a subshare.
That is an error if a subshare's parent (or higher-up ancestor)
environment is a virtual subshell, because a scope needs to be
created in that parent environment if none exists.
To make this bugfix possible, first we need to get something out of
the way. nv_restore() temporarily sets the subshell's pointer to
the preesnt working directory, shpwd, to null. This causes
sh_assignok() to assume that the subshell is a subshare (because
subshares don't store their own PWD) and refuse to create a scope.
However, nv_restore() sets it to null for a different purpose: to
temporarily disable scoping for *all* virtual subshells, making
restoring possible. This is a good illustration of why it's often
not a good idea to use the same variable for unrelated purposes.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c:
- Add a global static subshell_noscope flag variable to replace the
misuse of sh.shpwd described above.
- sh_assignok():
. Check subshell_noscope instead of shpwd to see if scope
creation is disabled. This makes it possible to distinguish
between restoring scope and handling subshares.
. If the current environment is a subshare that is in a virtual
subshell, create a scope in the parent subshell. This is done
by temporarily making the parent virtual subshell the current
subshell (by setting the global subshell_data pointer to it)
and calling sh_assignok() again, recursively.
- nv_restore(): To disable subshell scope creation while restoring,
set subshell_noscope instead of saving and unsetting sh.shpwd.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/subshell.sh:
- Add tests. I like tests. Tests are good.
Fixes: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/143
This commit fixes the following:
1. Emacs mode ignores --nobackslashctrl (re: 24598fed) when in
reverse search.
2. When entering more than one backslash, emacs reverse search mode
deletes multiple backslashes after pressing backspace once.
Reproducer:
$ set --emacs --nobackslashctrl
$ <Ctrl+R> \\\\<Backspace>
3. Except when in reverse search, the backslash fails to escape a
subsequent interrupt character (^C). Reproducer:
$ set --emacs --backslashctrl
$ teststring \<Ctrl+C>
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c:
- Disable escaping backslashes in emacs reverse search if
'nobackslashctrl' is enabled.
- Fix the buggy behavior of backslashes in emacs reverse
search by processing backslashes in a loop.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- Add regression tests.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Fix a minor documentation error (^C is the usual interrupt
character, not ^?).
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
'case x in esac' should be syntactically correct, but was an error:
$ ksh -c 'case x in esac'
ksh: syntax error at line 1: `case' unmatched
Inserting a newline was a workaround:
$ ksh -c $'case x in\nesac'
(no output)
The problem was that the 'esac' reserved word was not being
recognised if it immediately followed the 'in' reserved word.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c: sh_lex():
- Do not turn off recognition of reserved words after 'in' if we're
in a 'case' construct; only do this for 'for' and 'select'.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/case.sh:
- Add seven regression test for correct recognition of 'esac'.
Only two failed on ksh93. The rest is to catch future bugs.
Fixes: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/177
This commit fixes the functionality of Alt+D and Alt+H in emacs mode.
These keyboard shortcuts are intended to work on whole words, but
after commit 13c3fb21 their functionality was reduced to deleting only
singular letters:
$ Test word <Alt+H> # This should delete 'word', not just 'd'.
$ Foo <Alt+B> <Alt+D> # This should delete 'Foo', not just 'F'.
Man page entries for reference:
M-d Delete current word.
M-^H (Meta-backspace) Delete previous word.
M-h Delete previous word.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c:
- 'count' cannot be overridden when handling Alt+D or Alt+H,
so add the total number of repetitions to count (the number of
repetitions can't be negative).
- If 'count' is a negative number, set it to one before adding the
number of repetitions.
The following emacs editor 'feature' kept making me want to go back
to bash. I forget a backslash escape in a command somewhere. So I
go back to insert it. I type the \, then want to go forward. My
right arrow key, instead of moving the cursor, then replaces my
backslash with garbage. Why? The backslash escapes the following
control character at the editor level and inserts it literally.
The vi editor has a variant of this which is much less harmful. It
only works in insert mode and the backslash only escapes the next
kill or erase character.
In both editors, this feature is completely redundant with the
'stty lnext' character which is ^V by default -- and works better
as well because it also escapes ^C, ^J (linefeed) and ^M (Return).
[In fact, you could even issue 'stty lnext \\' and get a much more
consistent version of this feature on any shell. You have to type
two backslashes to enter one, but it won't kill your cursor keys.]
If it were up to me alone, I'd simply remove this misfeature from
both editors. However, it is long-standing documented behaviour.
It's in the 1995 book. Plus, POSIX specifies the vi variant of it.
So, this adds a shell option instead. It was quite trivial to do.
Now I can 'set --nobackslashctrl' in my ~/.kshrc. What a relief!
Note: To keep .kshrc compatibile with older ksh versions, use:
command set --nobackslashctrl 2>/dev/null
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c:
- Add new SH_NOBACKSLCTRL/"nobackslashctrl" long-form option. The
"no" prefix shows it to the user as "backslashctrl" which is on
by default. This avoids unexpectedly changing historic behaviour.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c: ed_emacsread(),
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c: getline():
- Only set the flag for special backslash handling if
SH_NOBACKSLCTRL is off.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1,
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- Document the new option (as "backslashctrl", on by default).
Other minor tweaks:
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c:
- ed_setup(): Add fallback #error if no tput method is set. This
should never be triggered; it's to catch future editing mistakes.
- escape(): cntl('\t') is nonsense as '\t' is already a control
character, so change this to just '\t'.
- xcommands(): Let's enable the ^X^D command for debugging
information on non-release builds.
src/cmd/ksh93/features/cmds:
- The tput feature tests assumed a functioning terminal in $TERM.
However, for all we know we might be compiling with no tty and
TERM=dumb. The tput commands won't work then. So set TERM=ansi
to use a standard default.
This fixes the following:
1. 'set --posix' now works as an equivalent of 'set -o posix'.
2. The posix option turns off braceexpand and turns on letoctal.
Any attempt to override that in a single command such as 'set -o
posix +o letoctal' was quietly ignored. This now works as long
as the overriding option follows the posix option in the command.
3. The --default option to 'set' now stops the 'posix' option, if
set or unset in the same 'set' command, from changing other
options. This allows the command output by 'set +o' to correctly
restore the current options.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- To make 'set --posix' work, we must explicitly list it in
sh_set[] as a supported option so that AST optget(3) recognises
it and won't override it with its own default --posix option,
which converts the optget(3) string to at POSIX getopt(3) string.
This means it will appear as a separate entry in --man output,
whether we want it to or not. So we might as well use it as an
example to document how --optionname == -o optionname, replacing
the original documentation that was part of the '-o' description.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/args.c: sh_argopts():
- Add handling for explitit --posix option in data/builtins.c.
- Move SH_POSIX syncing SH_BRACEEXPAND and SH_LETOCTAL from
sh_applyopts() into the option parsing loop here. This fixes
the bug that letoctal was ignored in 'set -o posix +o letoctal'.
- Remember if --default was used in a flag, and do not sync options
with SH_POSIX if the flag is set. This makes 'set +o' work.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/argnod.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/args.c: sh_printopts():
- Do not potentially translate the 'on' and 'off' labels in 'set
-o' output. No other shell does, and some scripts parse these.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: sh_init():
- Turn on SH_LETOCTAL early along with SH_POSIX if the shell was
invoked as sh; this makes 'sh -o' and 'sh +o' show expected
options (not that anyone does this, but correctness is good).
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- The state flags were in defs.h and most (but not all) of the
shell options were in shell.h. Gather all the shell state and
option flag definitions into one place in shell.h for clarity.
- Remove unused SH_NOPROFILE and SH_XARGS option flags.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/options.sh:
- Add tests for these bugs.
src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c: styles[]:
- Edit default optget(3) option self-documentation for clarity.
Several changed files:
- Some SHOPT_PFSH fixes to avoid compiling dead code.
With this patch, the Korn shell can now guarantee that calls to
sleep on systems using the select or poll method always result in
the system clock advancing by that much time, assuming no
interruptions. This compensates for deficiencies in certain
systems, including SCO UnixWare.
Discussion: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/pull/174
src/lib/libast/tm/tvsleep.c:
- Ensure that at least the time requested to sleep has elapsed
for the select and poll methods.
- Simplify the logic of calculating the time remaining to
sleep and handle the case of an argument of greater than
10e9 nanoseconds being passed to tvsleep.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/sleep.c:
- Eliminate the check for EINTR to handle other cases wherein
we have not slept enough.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh:
- Improve the diagnostic message when the sleep test fails.
- Revise the SECONDS function test to expect that we always
sleep for at least the time specified.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/functions.h:
- Redirect ps stderr to /dev/null. UnixWare ps prints an error
message about not being able to find the controlling terminal
when shtests output is piped, but we are only using ps to find
the PID.
This makes ksh 93u+m build on the following system:
$ uname -a
QNX qnx 6.5.0 2010/07/09-14:44:03EDT x86pc x86
Thanks to polarhome.com for providing the QNX shell account.
There are a number of regressions left to work out:
arrays.sh[636]: copying a large array fails
bracket.sh[129]: /tmp/ksh93.shtests.1753215026.6923/bracket.C/original should be older than /tmp/ksh93.shtests.1753215026.6923/bracket.C/newer
bracket.sh[132]: /tmp/ksh93.shtests.1753215026.6923/bracket.C/newer should be newer than /tmp/ksh93.shtests.1753215026.6923/bracket.C/original
builtins.sh[683]: real_t1 not found after parent directory renamed in subshell
functions.sh[1023]: cannot handle comsub depth > 256 in function
io.sh[252]: <# not working for pipes
io.sh[337]: read -n3 from pipe not working
io.sh[346]: read -n3 from fifo failed -- expected 'a', got 'abc'
io.sh[349]: read -n1 from fifo failed -- expected 'b', got 'd'
io.sh[379]: should have timed out
io.sh[380]: line1 should be 'prompt1: '
io.sh[381]: line2 should be line2
io.sh[382]: line3 should be 'prompt2: '
io.sh[406]: LC_ALL=C read -n2 from pipe 'a bcd' failed -- expected 'a bcd', got 'ab cd'
io.sh[406]: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 read -n2 from pipe 'a bcd' failed -- expected 'a bcd', got 'ab cd'
jobs.sh[86]: warning: skipping subshell job control test due to non-compliant 'ps'
pty.sh[105]: POSIX sh 026(C): line 120: expected "(Stopped|Suspended)", got EOF
pty.sh[128]: POSIX sh 028(C): line 143: expected "(Stopped|Suspended) \(SIGTTIN\)", got EOF
pty.sh[151]: POSIX sh 029(C): line 166: expected "(Stopped|Suspended) \(SIGTTOU\)", got EOF
signal.sh[310]: kill -TERM $$ failed, required termination by signal 'EXIT'
signal.sh[310]: kill -VTALRM $$ failed, required termination by signal 'EXIT'
signal.sh[310]: kill -PIPE $$ failed, required termination by signal 'EXIT'
(The io.sh failures mean libast sfpkrd() is not working.)
src/lib/libast/obsolete/spawn.c:
- Removed. Didn't compile due to wrong number of arguments to
spawnve(2), but is obsolete and unused.
src/lib/libast/comp/localeconv.c:
- The initialisation of two static 'struct lconv' variables was
done in a way that depended on OS headers declaring the struct
members in a certain order. This holds on most systems, but not
on QNX, and POSIX does not actually specify the order at all:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
So each member must be initialised by name. But C89 does not
support initialising struct members by name, so we have to do it
using an initialiser function that simply assigns the values.
src/lib/libast/comp/spawnveg.c:
- Fix for systems without either P_DETACH or _P_DETACH.
src/lib/libast/features/vmalloc,
src/lib/libast/vmalloc/vmmopen.c,
src/lib/libast/Mamfile:
- Add test for sys/shm.h header. If it doesn't exist, as it doesn't
on QNX, use the stub vmmapopen() as the real one won't compile.
(Mamfile: Add dependency on FEATURE/vmalloc to vmmopen.c.)
src/lib/libast/vmalloc/malloc.c:
- Remove superfluous externs that are already provided by either
AST or system headers. The 'void cfree' extern caused a build
failure on QNX because cfree() is of type int on QNX.
src/lib/libast/comp/conf.tab:
- Remove check for _map_spawnve; src/lib/libast/RELEASE says it was
removed.
That OpenSUSE patch introduced a bug: file descriptors other than 1
that were globally redirected using 'exec' or 'redirect' no longer
survived a ${ shared-state; } command substitution.
Related: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/128
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c:
- Add check for shp->subshare to the OpenSUSE patch.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh:
- Add test.
.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Go back to wrapping the regression tests in script(1).
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- Never mind about the stty builtin.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- Refuse to run if there isn't a functioning tty.
- Make sure stty(1) works on /dev/tty by redirecting stdin.
So, the pty regression tests on the Linux GitHub runner all failed.
Let's test an assumption: the reason is that we need the stty
builtin to properly set the pty state, because the OS-provided stty
command does not work if there is no real tty.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- Compile in the stty built-in. This adds about 20k to the binary
for a command that most users rarely need and even more rarely
need to be built in, so only compile it in on non-release builds.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- Skip the tests if we cannot either use the stty builtin or change
the state of the real terminal to be compatible with the tests.
The Mac runner is still broken: intermittent pipe- and
signal-related regressions that do not occur on any real Mac.
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/runs/1892358749
.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Remove the macOS runner.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- Do not skip pty tests if there is no tty. (On FreeBSD with no
tty, the tty builtin would need to be enabled in builtins.c.)
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/bracket.sh:
- Don't be noisy when skipping unavailable locales.
It is desirable to be able to run the tests on a system without
a functioning tty. Since this distribution comes with its own
pseudo-tty facility, pty, it should be possible to run the few
tests that require a tty on the pseudo-tty instead. I've verified
that they fail as expected on older ksh93.
Discussion: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/pull/171
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh,
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/bracket.sh:
- Remove tests that require a tty.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/pty.sh:
- Put them here, adapted to work as interactive pty scripts.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/shtests:
- No longer refuse to run if there is no functioning tty.
.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Since the tests no longer require a tty, no longer use script(1)
to get a pseudo-tty. Let's see if this works...
- Re-enable the Mac runner (re: 14632361). Maybe it has improved.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/leaks.sh: Read vsz from UnixWare's ps
UnixWare's ps reports an accurate virtual size, so collecting that is
preferable to trying to parse the real resident size.
The GitHub runners apparently provide a non-working /dev/tty. To
avoid failures and confusion, shtests shold refuse to run the tests
and tell people to use script(1) to simulate a tty. On Linux, it
goes like this:
script -q -e -c 'bin/shtests --your-options-here'
On macOS and FreeBSD, the invocation is:
script -q /dev/null bin/shtests --your-options-here
The NetBSD and OpenBSD variants of script(1) need different
invocations again. They also don't pass down the command's exit
status, so would need a workaround for that.
It would be nice if we could use pty for this as this comes with
the distribution, so would work the same on every OS, but it seems
to be broken for this use case.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/shtest:
- Use 'test -t 1' with stdout (fd 1) redirected to /dev/tty to
ensure the tty is actually on a terminal.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Remove superflous check for tty. All tests run through shtests.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/pull/171
src/cmd/ksh93/features/externs: ARG_EXTRA_BYTES detection:
- Improve detection of extra bytes per argument: on every loop
iteration, recalculate the size of the environment while taking
the amount extra bytes we're currently trying into account. Also
count arguments (argv[]) as they are stored in the same buffer.
On 64-bit Linux with glibc, this now detects 9 extra bytes per
argument instead of 8. An odd number (literally and figuratively)
but apparently it needs it; I do think my method is correct now.
On 64-bit Solaris and macOS, this still detects 8 extra bytes.
(On 64-bit Linux with musl C library, it detects 0 bytes. Nice.)
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/path.c: path_xargs():
- Remove the kludge subtracting twice the size of the environment.
With the feature test fixed, this should no longer fail on Linux.
- Take into account the size of the final null element in the
argument and environment lists.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh:
- Do not use awk for the test due to breakage in the system awks
on Solaris/Illumos (hangs) and AIX & UnixWare (drops arguments).
Instead, use (wait for it...) ksh. It's a bit slower, but works.
